Galena is on Historic Route 66, and it was used as a research location for the Pixar movie Cars. If you stop at the Kan-O-Tex service station, you'll see the boom truck that inspired the character of Mater.
The town also has a mining museum which, we regrettably found, closes at 3:30. It does have some outside exhibits that we got to see, including an anti-aircraft gun manned by a 5-year-old girl. We enjoyed the downtown area, and we wish time and weather would have allowed us to visit Schermerhorn Park, where a cave and river show the landscape and wildlife of the Ozarks of Kansas.
The town has a few churches, a cemetery, and a shopping district where a sign in front of a store called Liberty Hall boasted, "We buy gold, silver, and guns."
We were charmed by the Dalmatian-painted fire hydrants throughout the town.
